While the Federal Government has adopted and placed incentives for whistle blowing as a means of fighting corruption in the country, top government officials have slapped the government policy by terminating the career of an assistant director, who raised the alarm that the sum of $229,000 and N800,000 had been diverted by key officials in the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa, an agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The whistle blower, Mr. Ntia Thompson, an assistant director with the Directorate for Technical Cooperation in Africa, who blew the lid in the fraud that embarrassed the key masterminds, was initially suspended from work on December 19, 2016 and was finally dismissed from service on February 7, 2017.
According to a public notice, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, KHADIJA BUKAR ABBA IBRAHIM, who supervises the DTCA, approved the compulsory retirement of Ntia from work with immediate effect.
Although it was not clear as at last night if the letter had been served on the sacked director, a copy of the notice of his dismissal had been posted on the DTCA public notice board.
Edited from Vanguard.
*Ehen!!!..Whistleblowers are not safe in Nigeria,have a plan B before you blow the whistle!
Presidency should respond or else fighting corruption through whistle blowing won't work.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Nigeria. A land of irresponsibility
DeleteIt's not about having a plan B before blowing the whistle, it's about the government taking it up to sack the useless directors and call back the sacked whistle blower to work.
DeleteWhy should they publicist the identity of the whistle blower?
DeleteIsn't whistle blowing done anonymously? And why in the world does the law not protect the people who make their identity known ...
DeleteKnew it wil get to dis nd dey wil fight back....
ReplyDeleteFoolish people !!!
I said it that one day they will expose them.
ReplyDelete...and the ground won't be safe for them again.
ReplyDeletePeeeeem peeeem peeeeeeem
ReplyDeleteThe presidency shd wth immediate effect recall back d sacked Director now and fire d Minister and other people involved.They shd be charged to court and jail dem.
ReplyDeleteReally! Then it won't work if whistle blowers are not safe
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't make sense. The whistleblower should be protected. We shouldn't know his name at all
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy, the idiot frauds even have effontery to sack some one, something should be done asap
ReplyDeleteThe Whistle blower and all other kaakaki blowers should be careful, politicians are evil, lives mean nothing to them, dem go begin kill them one by one
ReplyDeleteHow was the blower even identified?
Be careful people, enu o she fun maalu o, ish!
SHARONNA
Kaakaki on NTA😂
DeleteDidn't I say this? I can't blow any whistle I they mad? They will frame hi. Up, tell many lies against him to back up their sacking him.. Plus his life will be in danger, how can u blow whistle in Nigeria?
ReplyDeleteHmmmm even football whistle I no blow biko....before they mistake me for the real whistle blower😂😂😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteFantastically corrupt country...
ReplyDeleteShameful.
Fantastically corrupt country...
ReplyDeleteShameful.
Isn't there a whistleblower protection act in place???
ReplyDeleteBlow whistle and die
ReplyDeleteMr. Thompson needs to be reinstated asap to his position and awarded past lost compensations plus an apology for wrongful termination by the ministry. Itse Sagay,hope you are listening and taking steps to redress this injustice. If you cannot provide a safety net for whistle-blower's to trust and feel confident about then don't send already suffering Naijas on a useless errand. Matter of fact, why not start by restructuring the country for therein lies the biggest fraud and corruption of all times. Or shall Nigeria keep going on a sham that guarantees the winner takes all? QED@atm
ReplyDeleteThe whistleblower policy was not I. Place as at December 2016 thus how is this covered under it?
ReplyDelete#justasking
Useless country. I've given up since
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